Did you grow up with a Hoosier cabinet in your home? We did, and we still have a lot of affection for this old-fashioned predecessor to built-in kitchen cabinets. Click through to read a little more about the Hoosier cabinet and to see a really gorgeous contemporary version of this kitchen classic.
Final results of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SDC-HeFT) are prompting a significant expansion of Medicare coverage, increasing the number of Medicare beneficiaries eligible for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) by one-third, or 500,000 patients.
The grouper logic is detailed in the Definitions Manual for Version 32 of the MS-DRG Grouper, which is available online via the CMS website. ICD-10 combination codes that incorporate a CC or MCC into a single diagnosis code pose an issue for DRG grouping. A combination code is a single code which represents multiple clinical issues. Clinical concepts that required two or more codes in ICD-9 only require a single combination code to be assigned in ICD-10.